Combined match-safe and box



(No Model.)

I H. J. GRIMM.

COMBINED MATCH SAFE AND BOX.

' N0.414,702. Patented Now-12,1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries,

HENRY .I. GRIMM, OF CLEVELAND, OllIO.

COMBINED MATCH-SAFE AND BOX.

SPEGIFICATIDN forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,702, dated November 12, 1889. Application filed May 9, 1889. Serial'No. 310,208 (No model.)-

To aZZ whom it may concern: represents the lid or cover of the com- Be it known that I, HENRY J. GRIMM, a citi- 'partment b, and is hinged thereto, the pintlc Zen of the United States, residing at Cleveof said hinge being provided with a spring 1), land, in the county of Ouyahoga, in the State so arranged as to press the lid to a closed 3 5 5 of Ohio, have invented certain new and useposition.

ful Improvements in a Combined Match-Safe E is a pin or lug projecting laterally from and Cigar-Box, of which the following is a the cover 0, next adjacentto the lid or cover specification, reference being had to the ac- F of the compartment 0 of the box 13, and is companying drawings. designed to rest upon the top or outer face 1a The invention consists in the peculiar conof such lid F, as shown in the drawings. By struction, arrangement, and combinations of raising the lid F the lid 0 of the match-box the parts, all as more fully hereinafter set is also opened upwardly, giving access to the forth and claimed. interior of both compartments. Upon releas- The object of the invention is to construct ing the lid F, the reaction of the spring D I; a two-part box, one compartment of which is simultaneously closes the lids or covers of designed to contain matches and the other both compartments. compartment to contain cigars, the covers IVhat I claim as my invention is being so constructed and arranged that in In combination, atwo-part box constructed opening the cigar-box the match-box cover substantially as described, and provided with 20 will be also opened, while both covers will be separate covers or lids, one of said covers besimultaneously closed. ing provided with a spring-hinge and with a Figure 1 is a perspective view of my imlaterally-proj ectin g lug adapted to engage proved device closed. Fig. 2 is asimilar View with the cover of the other box or compare of the same when open. ment, substantially as and for the purposes 5 5 2 5 In the accompanying drawings, which form described.

a part of this specification, A represents a match-safe, which is designed to be rigidly HENRY J. GRIMM. secured to one end of a cigar-box B by any suitable means-such as the ears a-thus vir- \Vitnesses: 3o tually forming a two-part box with compart- OTTO KRUMP,

ments 7) and c. IVILLIAM H. KOEHLER. 

